Baker Hotel in warm evening light
Texas history · film · photography

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Scroll to discoverBaker Hotel · Mineral Wells
Empty Baker Hotel room with arched windows, exposed ceiling and soft daylight
Beyond the familiar

Step inside.
See it differently.

Light through an old window. A detail in the ceiling. There is always more to notice.

Mineral Wells, TexasInside the Baker Hotel
Original photography · Jonny Goodday
The surviving Swift staircase and its brickwork in Fort Worth
Fort Worth · Swift & Company

A staircase.
A whole
city’s story.

Sometimes the smallest surviving piece gives us a reason to look at everything that came before it.

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01 / What remainsSwift & Company
Fort Worth, Texas
Red brick West Texas Utilities power plant and tall chimney in Abilene
Abilene · West Texas Utilities

Behind
these walls.

A familiar skyline is only the beginning. Keep looking. Then step inside.

From the skyline to the smallest detail

Come a
little closer.

The next part of the story is inside.

02 / Beyond the facadeWTU Power Plant · Abilene
Empty WTU power plant interior with weathered gauges, rusted pipes and steel beams
Inside the frame

The details
have a voice.

Weathered paint. Quiet machinery. The traces left behind. A closer look changes the way you see a place.

03 / A different perspectiveInside West Texas Utilities
Original photography · Jonny Goodday
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